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The U.S. Education Department is releasing more than $5 billion in education grant funding to states. In late June, the Trump administration told states it was withholding these previously approved federal grants for further review. That announcement came a day before the July 1 deadline when those funds have traditionally been disbursed. The decision left many school districts scrambling in the lead up to the school year.

"If I cared about subsidies," Elon Musk said in 2015, "I would have entered the oil and gas industry." Yet the history of Musk's business empire tells another story. Musk's companies have long been fueled by taxpayer money, whether in the form of massive government contracts, low-interest loans, tax breaks and other support that helped make Musk one of the world's richest people. Over the past two decades, firms run by Musk have received tens of billions of dollars in federal bac